News and events

A phone conversation took place on 20 April between State Secretary/Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and European Union Special Representative Pierre Morel....

On 18 April 2011 in Moscow negotiations took place between Konstantin Romodanovsky, Director of the Russian Federal Migration Service, and Stefano Manservisi, Director General of the European Commissi...

On 18 April 2011 a meeting of Senior Officials took place in Moscow, tasked to elaborate a list of Common Steps towards a visa-free short-term travel regime for Russian and EU citizens. The Senior Of...

On 14 April 2011 a delegation of the Russian Investigative Committee met in Brussels with Mr. T.Cretin, Director of Directorate A (Investigations and Operations), as well as heads of other key units o...

Within the framework of the Russia-EU political dialogue Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko met Deputy Executive Secretary General for political affairs of the European External Acti...

The second round of negotiations on a draft Agreement on operational co-operation between Russia and Europol was held in The Hague on 4-6 April 2011. The Russian delegation comprised representatives f...

The fourth round of expert consultations on a draft Russia-EU Agreement on Drug Precursors was held in Brussels on 7-8 April 2011. The participants to the meeting reached agreement on most of outstand...

On 4 April 2011 an exhibition devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first-ever manned space flight opened in the Breydel building of the European Commission. The exhibition is organized by the Rus...

An exhibition devoted to the 50th anniversary of the flight of Yury Gagarin to space was held in the European Parliament on 21-25 March 2011. It was organized by Vladimír Remek, first Czechoslovak cos...